http://www.moveon.org/pac/newpres/
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Thanks, Wolf. I think I promised ?Lola? to post that link and never did. Meanwhile, the latest National Press Club program on Patriot Act II is said to be a doozy. Listen on line this evening at 7 EDT.
America & the Courts
Asst. Atty. Gen. Viet Dinh addresses the ABA on how the USA Patriot Act has aided law enforcement in fighting terrorism
ON C-SPAN, SATURDAY AT 7PM
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Thanks, wolf, I'm signing up immediately and telling all my friends.
Somebody hand me a cup of coffee, please. Brain is idling. That's the ABA program on Patriot Act II, not the Nat'l Press Club.
The only way to beat Bush in 2004 is to take the battle right to him and not hesitate to attack on the grounds that conventional wisdom says are his strong points: leadership and foreign policy. He obviously is VERY weak on economic issues. But for a lot of people, especially in the media, the idea that he is a strong leader and has a good foreign policy have become givens. Many who cover him allow the assumption that these characteristics are true to permeate their stories on the guy.
The Democrats need to spend the next two years hammering the guy constantly on every aspect of his alleged superiority on these two issues. Attacks cannot come piecemeal every now and then. It must be uncompromising in its ferocity every single day from now until election day.
Think of it as "shock and awe." (Believe me, the Repubs will be doing this to the eventual nominee because they are already doing it to the candidates.)
Every time the assumption is made that Bush IS good at being a leader or IS good at foreign policy--that assumption must be challenged vigorously and repeatedly.
Democrats must not give ground on this matter.
George W. Bush has one of the biggest political glass jaws that this world has ever seen. All that is needed is for people to be brave enough to take a swing at it.
I think you're exactly right, PDiddie. I think Dean is onto this, don't you?
I'm trying to wrap my mind around the very real probability that we're going to have 4 more years of shrub. I'll resist, and vote for the democrat who gets the nomination, but I can't ignore the writing on the wall.
Snood -- What do you think would be the most effective way to stop him?
I'm sorta leaning on this with snood; it just doesn't look good right now to replace GWBush in 2004. I'm both mystified and dumified by the support shrub gets from the American people. I'm clearly not in the majority of Americans that thinks shrub is doing a good job. It seems evident to me that most Americans do not care what justification this administration uses for going to war with Iraq, nor how our economy is crawling in the basement. Over 2 million jobs lost in 2001, and most Americans doesn't seem to mind. What gives? I'm lost. c.i.
IMO,
It has to do with the same mentality that got Reagan in for 2 terms, and the first Bush in.
There is a desire by a very large part of the population to get things "back to the way it was". The way what was? Well, that's harder to put my finger on. From what I've heard in the past, and continue to hear, alot of people(yes - this group is characterized by white males) think Bush is "one of them", and he "understands the common man". Beyond that, there is a not so subtle desire to return to values and mores of the past. One commentator (I think it was Roselyn Carter) said that Reagan made it easy for white people to be "comfortable with their prejudices". I think bush gives the same kind of comfort. He is a "uniter", so he says, but he makes sure he never does anything to offend the backbone of his constituency - those white men - alot of them Southern - who think Bob Jones University is just a great old fashioned bastion of "conservatism".
Bush is reassuring to those people who think the US is being overrun by "multiculturalism" and "gay rights" and other blights. Just a good ole boy, y'know?
Agree, Snood, and in fact was saying pretty much the same thing in another discussion just now: it's all about patriarchy, something which many women also yearn to return to (out of laziness, I think, and fear). But it's certainly plenty evident in my (our) neck of the woods -- these damn "rights" just complicate everyone's lives. Thus the lack of interest in "all this talk about civil liberties" (= civil rights, and you know what civil rights are -- just letting others get their foot in the door...).
Speaking of boring democracy, did you hear Bush make the statement that he's ready to go with any form of government in Iraq, as long as it's democracy?
I think he makes the point quite well.
Henry Ford used to say "You can have any color you want, as long as it's black".
cjhsa wrote:I think he makes the point quite well.
Henry Ford used to say "You can have any color you want, as long as it's black".
Has Bush done
anything you haven't liked, cjhsa?
at least Ford delivered black.
Tartarin
How much do you think they've got on you and me?
